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The 61st Annual Cynthiana Lion’s Club Radio Auction will be held March 26-30. The auction begins each night at 6:30 p.m. and will be carried live on the local Cable 6 television channel and by WCYN-1400 AM radio. The auction will also be streamed live on the WCYN app at WCYN.com. It is scheduled to end each night at 10 p.m.
Dustin Rose is heading up the auction this year as the chairman and is looking forward to making money that will stay in Harrison County.

Rotary
breakfast, egg hunt is March 31
Harrison County Rotary and Relay For Life Pancake Breakfast will be held Saturday, March 31 from 8-11 a.m. in the Southside Elementary School cafeteria; followed by the Frankie Taylor Memorial Community Easter Egg Hunt at 11 a.m. at Ingles Stadium. Sponsored by the Rev. Ross Park Committee and the Harrison County Family Resource Center.

Cynthiana to host first Hemp Day
in June
The first Chamber of Commerce-sponsored Hemp Day will be held on Saturday, June 9, in downtown Cynthiana.

Thirty-nine years ago, after boasting to all who would listen, Jimmie Cooper assured everyone that his wife was delivering them a son and he would be named after his Daddy.
The best laid plans and all that later...
The doctor told Cooper that he didn’t have a son, but he did have “a truly beautiful baby girl.”
Since the Coopers had only boy names picked out, that truly beautiful baby girl was named Truly.

The Harrison County grand jury met Tuesday, March 6, returning 31 indictments against 25 people. Many of the defendants were arrested in a drug sweep on Thursday. Their information is repeated in a press release from the Bluegrass Narcotics Task Force on page 2.

As the 2018 election draws near candidates will begin lining up their followers to write endorsement letters to the newspaper.
We welcome those local letters. Local being the operative word here.
We won’t accept letters of mass mailings. With e-mail so prevalent, it’s tougher to determine “mass mailings.” However, if someone sends a letter from Indianapolis endorsing one of our local hopefuls, it’s pretty obvious that it’s from a mailing list.

The Harrison County Fiscal Court approved the 2018 jail budget, as submitted by jailer Steve Slade, at its regular meeting on Tuesday night.
The budget trims $3,200 off last year’s budget and comes in at $942,960. The bulk of the jailer’s office budget is a $655,000 expense earmarked for contracted housing expenses for inmates at other county or regional jail facilities, primarily the Bourbon County Detention Center.

Agencies assigned to the Bluegrass Narcotics Task Force (Harrison County Sheriff’s Office, Cynthiana Police Department, Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office and Paris Police Department) and the Kentucky State Police began conducting narcotic investigations in Cynthiana, Harrison County. During the course of these investigations, detectives purchased and/or confiscated heroin, fentanyl, prescription narcotics and vehicles from suspects throughout the city and county.

“It would be nice to have a choice,” Cynthiana Commissioner Lourena Judy told fellow members of the commission while introducing Cindy Batson at Tuesday’s meeting.
Batson has been championing state government to amend its mandate for all water treatment facilities to add fluoridation to its public water systems.
She claims that adding fluoride to the public’s water system is creating over-fluoridation.

No one was more surprised than David Woods when he was announced by his daughter as the Farmer of the Year at the annual Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet in January.
“I thought I was there because my son (Derick Woods) was supposed to receive an award for his business,” the 64-year-old farmer said. “I was totally surprised.”
That night, his wife, Pam, had to nudge him after his name was announced.